erford | ‘After Russell | both £.JUST TO TELL YOU WHY It is not my purpese to fling words at Fussellism, What I hope to do is to call back some of its own words that it would Ike to forget, and let it tell its own blunders. I have no quarrel with the credulous followers of Mr. Russell; they have denied so many of my statements that I have reason to be- lieve they are really not well informed about their own history as a cult. 1 have made, semethi of study, of cults and fens. andl ry cons vietlon is that compels every outstani fo carry ex threads that will RAVEL IT OUT for prayerfully thoughtful people. Man is prone to guillibility, else our Lord would not have said “Take beed that ye be not deceived.” 1 have agen men stand in line waiting to feed money inte a gambling device that was set against them. Thave known a pretty woman on trial for the murder of her tushard, to employ a secretary to answer proposals of marriage. You can find de- votees following man-made theories on every level, from abysmal folly to sublime conocit, and it does not occur to them that by some possi- ae st they might be misled. the Russell-Rutherford guesses had been the vagaries of some old setther who predicted events by goose bones, black cats, dog howl- ing, or the tilt of the new moon, we might dismiss them with a smile, hut these men presumed to unseare sin-lovers who feared to meet an of- fended God, and their promises persisted when their prophecies failed. In a dim light, you can frighten people by putting n time fuso in a green pumpkin, but the hoax becomes apparent when the explosion of the improvised bomb is long overdue. contention is that someone pul new fuses in the pumpkins. Now [ have no doubt that many people have occasion to fear the wrath of God, but the pity is that flee- ing from a false alarm, they have taken refuge in the shadow of a slum- bering volcano. Let me assure the reader that I have no objection to the resur- rection of the dead and the translation of the saints before the end of 1914—or any other year that pleases God—but the menace of these prophecies was that they we ical used to frighten or bribe people into ac- eepting soul deceiving en the 1914 bomb failed to. explode Mr. grec rations words of the language to fit the failure. In the foreword of Vol. 2, ots a he ceptions that the Gentile Times "CHRONOLOGICALLY: Later Mr. Rutherford empl: another verbal sauce by saying,“ . . the old world SALLY ENDED in 1914.” {emphasis mine), Why not go farther and say that Abraham ehren lly was rakted from the dead and the saints were legally tranalated in 19147 Apparently Mr, Rutherford is not wholly satisfied with these ef- forts to dodge, for he says in his “Harp” book (p. 250), “Why should we quibble now about dates?” Since his own predictions for 1325 have failed. I have no doubt he would like very much to UN-QUIBBLE a number of dates oe Samuel, the Word says Jehovah “did let ‘aon of his words fall but Mr. Russell has li the ground with fallen rts" and holds the record for the most words and the fewest fulfill- ments. tS ‘Date of frat Edition, 1928THE SEVEN THUNDERS OF MILLENNIAL DAWN BY B. H, SHADDUCK, Ph.D. The “Seven Thunders” are seven books, The name is not my in- vention; the seventh volume reveals it These are not just rhetorical thunders or a literary These books were published T. a “Pastor Russell"), ane at a time, first in 1886, the last in 1917. Volume 7 was published after Mr, Russell's dea humous Work of Pastor Russell.” When § 8 g enough re speak for themselves, It is my conviction that people have been drawn to the organiza’ by Mr. Russell the doctrines deal with sin. I write hat have failed, then they’ fulfill the prophecy of our Lord’ Jesus, that “And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deeefve many” books “is fi their efforts to keep the facts from th When the ter would kave: met’ thera ‘In bie debate nah, ad. they raed that = he sum of five hundred dollars “refer te juckations con— tained in any periodical or book published by the International Bible ‘Students ion.” After reading some of the quotations that fol- low, one can understand why did this, i Fier eR nein al 7 Thei0m PY Lrcotac hs) ffearosoh a bed of 8560 Oh et gedrondar het Be wll nal abteter Puath Ae oes Ahr hebake, ot TE po wtigs eguits ov Lot fublihet Whe He Urkerviialiowol ‘alt a atontadion cd 4 Ri thced ofhll a. Poet. Muwtebll oa tatu, rl the Onbbu lle oe he “ tall ob eves 4600.80 AT fe Kent otefote "TPT uf A aunchnatond Hold AS Wee peraus! Ae aclete a aabinsons root HISTORY OF THE MOVEMENT Jn 1844 a cult under the leadership of William Miller announced the coming of the Lord in that year. it be said to this carnest man that when his prophecies utterly failed he did not perpetuate : hie ang to insert other dates and the os did Mr. Rus- sell and his followers. That Mr. Russell was the succesor of Dr, OER at Russell believed that he had discovered ers misiakes in that cur Lord would come thirty years later and he in- visible, Vi 3, S, says: “Wi cnovement t [Millers] as, being in ss order. Ths was, undoubted of the i Baniete i ‘Tight time te full prop ins a els “Ssione and ‘at the night tl te fn prophecy. eeIn Volume 7, page 163, Mr. Miller ave orders to the sixti lation, aed a said to be the voice that the as Hussell te books, 1 pended on to mean what ordinary if language can be taken at iis face ¥: tions above, that Mr. Hussell regarded Mr. Miller as a kind of runner of humeclf. [ have pointed out the obvious connection betwi these two movements in order to emphasize the fact that the “scares” of one were mo more dependable than of the other. ARE THE FOLLOWERS OF RUSSELL A SECT? ‘ought Inds, whe dent ‘Bibles on hie ‘miicrtinading “that In pendent stu at an it mu dreadful events would occur before 1914, and then the same pean by independent study discovered that they had miscalculated that the correct date was 1915, and later 118, and still later found it was 1925, and net one of the dates Prove correct, it would be amazing if’ “going "by ‘the Bible would convince all these people that certain measurements in the Great Pyramid proved that the world's great trouble would begin in 1874, and then by the same independent Bible study find that the same pyramid sl that the trouble was to start in 1914. Weuld net auch remarkable agreements in making mistakes suggest that they are a Russell ‘Students As Association? fas cave aeh econ of the Bible makes such sweey claims for itself as this ‘Snched Mystery,” Volume 7, which to be the embodi. ment of at least seven prophecies in the Book of Revelation end. un dertakes to explain all that ae nies hidden in Cal and Revelation. It says Sword of the Spirit was to 3 inf wielded Pastor ftesell? twice’ three tines in his volumes. explains itself is the - i oe rer ‘The inference is_ that be Volume 7 was fo the sword. Other Oe iced that a book that recommends itself so highly any. other prophet. Though it was printed after Mr. Russell had * from and mentions Mr. seal hy name no lees than times il have — namberes tho + peomens, the publish i ine we ping On 44 this bock, which is called a “Posthumous Work of Pastor 11,” explains Revelation #3, which describes an angel of- Htuvacil as passed. beyond” the tell, he's stl’ managing ‘crore festore “the has privately. why privately’) aa vel en “He haa Wi ol peri is was chooen for hin eat’ woek from beloce fis. birth” 418 iden= ties Mir, Russell as the “man in linen" seen by L if the reader aie ma Bible ot Ezekiel 9 and read of ‘this Russell en sears tt ate Ra a reer — pn ears ago. It sen 3 f Mr. Russell ready fi is ae = ing. for page has “undoubtedly made his report in presence Of Chuist that be has done ihe work he was given Wo doc Russell had with his wife, but the Jaims it, Volume 7 gives to them eternal significance. tb othe ak: prveteles| We ateaae sees the et's wife, at least most people would so understand it,— whi is book says has reference te the trouble between Mr. Biss, taal Peate ae cetera an exe, of eile) ee “Ged took away Pastor Russell the desire of his her whom he loved, with a stroke or ‘plague’ of spiritual error complete! separated. them,” Thus appears that. the divorce case “of Mr Rast all was typed or foretold in the Book of Exekiel Not only’ Mr. Rusell ented ‘an the voice” af Revelation 18:2 (pp. 161, 237, 273). Uhese portions of Revelation and see that these volees are ascribed to the Lord Jesus in the first, from within the accord, and an angel of great power in the fear this comes to 3 selves as “Bible students” After reading cur Lord in Matthew 2ist, 1, 24, that” false prophsata and shall deceive many," I am better to believe it possible to find buyers for = "383000 edition’ of Finkhed "Mi Here are samples from this volume that indicate i these: people have of other whe think of Bible truths, was taken clergy, to. a eee stewardship, and given to Russell” (p. 386). “Then, in 1881, he become God's w al "tp. 387). This will explain why these people never had any “pester.” OnNIMEOD AND THE TRINITY Their stro dislike for the doctrine of the Trinity is indicated by these samples, from pages 414 and 415 of Volume 7: married his mother, Semiramis, ao that, in « sense, he was his father and his own son. Here was the origin of the Trinity trine” “The practices of Nimrod were continue’ secret by Ser 233 ramis. and as every caution hed to be taken, things done were veiled in mystery. act and were represented only in sym n to the tnitiated. Here the various secret societies, with their blood ing oaths secrecy all of them abominations to Gad.” ds of in but three verses in the Bible (Gen. 10:8, 9; [ Chron. 1:10), none of them even hinting at such is evident accusations are not the re= sive name claim the exclusive custody of “Present Truth." This giving of terse modifieations to wuth ie tone sistent for le who lime in “truth” that needs io be “set” fi Uke a slow gelog stock. “The strwhe™ eft ey them in ISI, "IBIB, and "1925" Have been ‘replaced “with a? utccene ge pe DO ANGELS BLUNDER? ‘Could a man who was chosen before he was born to put ink on i jel los, { the kingdom will be_sccompl ihe Te tad Os Scan Sarees © range of option for the events. In an edition of these books shawing ‘blisher's date of 1923 the words “by the close” in the first quo- ation are changed to “about the clon” Sed Ske woke iby tnt, ae in the second quotation are changed to “near the end.” Even with these changes the fullitiment is ‘overdue, ‘olume 7 mes the ane ie four years, Tt says (p. 485): “Tn the 1918, when God ya the churches wholesale and the shun members millions, {t shall be that any that escape shall come to the works of Russell [net Judge Rutherford | to lear the meaning of the downfall of ‘Christianity’, ar this, H bpears that survivors will be Russell students— very thing these people they are not, Let the render keep in mind’ that ‘this Volume 7 was printed the IL“ Therefore it is the Inst word from Mr, Russell on dates abd events. [on ize this because there are books in circulation that have evidently been jampered with—books that appear to be wholly the li work of Mr, rs previously—books in which the time limit is In some cases ifted or the prophecies modified, Volume 7 establishes the fact that as lite as 1917 all sorts of up= heaval, collanse, cnd calamity were expected in 1918, 193, [se]. and 1925, This fact ought to nullify the thinly disguised pfforts to rake the books that wore written oarlier show 9 later Program of Mr. Russell, T will not weary the reader with the prophecies that had movable dates, but I would caution, persons ‘having coples of the bocks that an early publisher's date does not prove that the clumsy revisions thal were evidently thrust inte = type Page already set up red Mr, Russell before that t cases Face fo calculated and’ memsarcd that iis hora hye ete fura the Hines above and below, though there are av few places vhere & mn Te his set in, Volume 2, with isher"s of 123, shows a chart ‘om ‘BMC 27 that dates the destruction, of five years earlier, has the same chart on page 95, with the date ree: years Inter,’ ‘Thus it i clear that the earlier ‘putiihere dees may be just as (ule as the changing of Mr, Russells statement alier tested and accepted and will chose of A.D. 1910." The edition dated 1 makes: tion read, “Very soon after 1914"; and the second te pyramid testify that “anarchous trouble” is coming on that date. aa F a iThat the deliverance of the saints must take place some tim afore,1914 is manifest, since the deliverance of. flesh- ly Israel, as we shall see, is appointed to take place at that time, and the angry nations will then be authoritatively commanded to be still, and will be made to recognize the power of Jehovah’s Anointed. Just how long fbefore) 191 4 the last living members of the body of Christ will be glori- fied, we are not directly informed ; but it certainly will not be until their work in the flesh is done ; nor can we reason- ably presume that they will long remain after that work is accomplished. With these two thoughts in mind, we can approximate the time of the deliverance. This is an enlarged photoeraphie reproductiin from pege 228 in Vol. 3. Please notice that the lorification of the saints MUST hi BEFORE 114 because the Jews are to be delivered then. Kosice that any war after that, will be contrary to Divine commands “authoritively” given. That the deliverance of the saints must take place very soon after 1914 is manifest, since the deliverance of fléesh- ly Israel, as we shall see, is appointed to take place at that time, and the angry nations will then be authoritatively commanded to be still, and will be made to recognize the power of Jehovah's Anointed. Just how long after 1914 the last living members of the body of Christ will be glori- fied, we are not directly informed ; but it certainly will not be until their work in the flesh is done; nor can we reason- ably presume that they will long remain after that work is accomplished. With these two thoughts in mind, we can approximate the time of the deliverance. Thin is a, similar reproduction from the 1923 edition of the same pace and La any false prophet since the world began, could have saved his page book. Consider t sant ¢ % BEFORE and AFTER.’ Both reproducions are enlarge es “7 make Such skiMr. a followers chide me for calling altention to these discredited prophecies and remind me that “everybody makes mis- These prophecies are more than mistakes mo, jase than’ false. prophecies, 1nd (alee, pcopteches can the and the things said about the dates, and now they beast that Mr. Russell prophesied the World War, EXCUSES Some of Mr. Russell's followers insist that the fact that his hecies were misdated by a few years docs not really all the fruth. But Mr. Russell did not allow’ for any elasticity in. the fulfill- ment of his forecasts. ‘He named the exact month of the exact year. As dle very foundation of his systern, fe declared that the Lord Jesus came to earth in October, = to direct the “Harvest,” which was a period of crsely ae E October, 1914. With fanatical lids ith the fophecy’ Would “be” “ase “farthest limit of w Prep the rule of Sen the full establishment of the ingdeom ef of Sod en, "wath igi4, If Mr. Russell was mis- jaken as to what ha ied at the close of the forly year period, he rust have been moos to what happened at the beginning of the fort: Mr. Fussell made his prophecies hang on ex- act fulfillment. In Volume 2, page says: “For he it dis thot Hf the chronology, af these time-pericds, be ot one im in henaunty ‘ma of this parallelism are destroy hasis mi In the fon oe uch a challenge, some one did change them of the Lord, ii, the thing. follow net, nar come to is the hh the Lord hath not ‘hant F hath pr it presampiueusly; thou shalt mot afrabkd of hin.’ Volume 7, issued after Mr. Russell's death, set the date for the work's upsetting me the end of the Harvest in 1918. In this revised prophecy. it apy that republics will persist for two years, for page 253 says, nthe republics will disappear in the fall of 000." Youne will not remember the dire ls fore 191 later sajusted to 1915, 1918, 1921, and 1s, and, as later editions are alrendy being offered ‘to a itseredit my state- ments, it would be well for older people, who do remember, to com- 12 malt r generation. I have not all testimony to the the bet 1 bere soci to ee: anh aecaa ulciecmurhs Berea bees twee, Since claim that the Lard Jesus came to earth in 1874 to manage the Harvest, and that Mr, Russell went beyond the veil to manage ene are and the management i discredits the prophectes, ought net his followers to entertaln joult as to the correctness of their doctrines? FARCICAL EXPOSITIONS Not only have their “time-periods" utterly failed of fulfillment, so that the calendar testifies against them, t the expositions of Scripture are so trifling that cne wonders how normal minds could be enamored of such doctrines. I offer some sample expositions foand in Volume 7: pei eal eta al Mae tr A baat ta tan ea Barter of Recher, N.Y. (pp. 54, 388) Ths to the botiamiee pit in aaid to mean thé key to “soth- ing” and re,” and John Weal was given this, key (p. 156). The tails of the locusts in Revelation 9:3-! to cen Biathedist cine lenders. (p15). The lice that troubled Pharaoh are understood to The Bible Student Monthly, ‘Tecause thls publication causes ta Drople of the wack, tho Devil, and the clorgy to “seraich ‘their ney a tice, waeaietng baw to deal with « plague which they eee ae 18:14 is explained this way: “The future of the clergy is that in the Millennial Age will have to work for a living, like Bie ree oe else! Isn't it aw to contemplate? It means an sixty-five cents for an alarm clock in every preacher's Takse'te Chissieadomr™ ‘tp. 285), Tn addition to this expense of sixty-five cents, there is a more series iy. reserved fet some of us. Page 338 says. “His ty will ‘when be comes forth from the amb in uve Pines Rea- dnution, ate will have to read the Seven, Volumes of Seipture books, mod must sludy, Notice also that Judge Rutherford's writings will not be necessary. The reader may wonder what ion of the Bible means that we shall be punished by being compelled to read these books. The don referred tn ia soe of dw moat sclectn warnings in tha Word of Ged, Revelation 22:18: “If any man shall odd unto these things. God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book.” a Another verse in nm that ought to put o solemn hush on avery soul ie explained. in just su a Salling wey. Revelation 14:8 and 20 felis of the “winepress of the wrath of fo "capes iat reaching sixteen facts. explains it this Volume 7 (which is the wine press) was Fa, and the sixteen hundred furlongs (whlch re reduced. 18 twelve fet foteom for oy serene reason are said to mean the distance from the printing plant to the headquasters tn in Brooklyn, N. ¥. To ation, METHODS OF INTERPRETATION On pare 128 of this same Volume 7, there is this corrected (7) prophecy: “There is evidence that the establishment of the kingdom in Palestine will probably bein 1925, ten rs later than we once on : calculated. many curious to on what they base their cakulation. He may turn to Genesis 15:3 ard read the story of = heifer, 4 she- a ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon, The reasoning is in this fashion: They decile that the year was 2005 B.C; on what authority, is not ven. They determine that the total age of these beasts and birds was eleven years, though the ages of birds is guesswork. Fer purposes of interpretation, the years are reckoned to have 300 days—a total of 3,960 days, They understand each of these days to mean a year. Add 3980 years to 2005 B. Co and you have AD. 1825—the date of the kingdom of Palestine, Simple enough! All that spoiled the method was that it did not happen. One weakness of the method is thot if the turtledove waa two years old the kingdom is not due until A. D, 2885, ‘On page 174, they say that “all phases of Babylon will net be disposed ‘af until ten and a half years from the fall of 1914" (the ape ef 1925), They base this hope on certain events in the French REASONING IN A CIRCLE Volume 7, page 5, says, “The Scriptures show that the seventh Volume must be written.” How may we know that the Scriptures mention Volume 7? Volume Sith oo, Thus the Bible shows that Volume 7 must be written to show that the Bible says it must be written, How can you argue with a sine Stat ts other astounding retations of Scriptun ‘They ie re. aro sure, because the Scriptures testify f they are the only people whe will be able to interpret “present truth.” DEITY OF JESUS REJECTED After reading in Volume 7 thet Mr, Russell for 2500 years has been a chief actor and spenker in the visions of the proj and continues to manage “¢ feature of the Harvest work.” we may expect to find other characteristic of outstanding heresy, ‘On page 161 we are told that the denominations “deny the central truth of the Scriptures,” and his central truth is “that when Jesus Christ came to earth, he came man only, devoid of immortal or dlivindly, chat Seon he dod ha wes eo dS te Cha eee many i net MR. RUSSELL'S CONFESSION Mr. Russell lived to see the utter failure of the prophecies he had set for “before 1914" In a foreword dated Getober 1, 1916, printed in_an edition of Volume 2, showing publisher's date of 1923, he saya: author acknowledges that i this book he is the theaghe that the Lord's saints might expect to be with him in glory at the ending of the Gentile times . . . Qctober, Id..." He suggests that ? OTHER FALSE CONCLUSIONS ge FRO, Volume 2 (dated 1903) I select the following from pages “Sin this chapter we present the Bible evidence proving that the full end of the times of the Gentiles, i. ¢, the full end of their lease of dominion, will he reached in A. D. 19M; and that date will be the farthest limit of the rule of imperfect men.” In the edition dated 1823 this prophecy is cleverly to read, “And that date will sec the disintegration of the rule of i fect man.” The same vol- umn, curly edition, says on W 78, “The great ‘time of trou- ble such ns never was since there was a nation’ will reach its culmi- nation and end at that date...” ‘The later cdition reads, “will reach culmination in a world-wide reign of soerehy i The date re= ferred to is 1914. The papacy, which is di red to be “Antichrist” on page 361, is named on page 386 for “final extinction” “near the clone, of the “Day of Wrath’, . 1914.” This statement is unchanged ie ition. in 4, page 625, says: “The beginning of the earthly phase af the kingdom in the end of A. BD, 1014 will, we understand, consist wholly of the resurrected holy ones of olden time,—from John the to Abol—‘Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all ‘the holy "On page 619, this resurrection is said to be vislble. is unchanged in the later edition. It is another “false con- clusion.” It is more than a mistake to promise the visible resurrec- ones in 1914. It is more than a mistake to rate thisy'man as the loud volee of Jesus (Val. 7, p. 125), and being or sounding the “trump of Goel" (Vol. 7, p. 385). REPAIRING THE THUNDERS Let the reader decide whether it is honest to change the dates in these books and the things said about the dates and leave the pub- —-b- F114." In the editien of 1923, word i in the early editlen of Volume 4, pages 348 and S47, “We have seen that God has set a nine years ar this forty-year peried began, they announce that It will end very shortly—the longest f period in hi And new fifty-three years have passed and itis nck ok en Volume 2, page 81, carly edition, tells of Beas aver the world that “can date only from A. D. 1914" The later edition reada, “Could not precede A. B. 19M" This is seni f fixing it to stay Fouad for’ me orem la the -aeet sills yewrs,, which happened after 1823 can 194. In the same on PARE ZL, that dhe Jews “will not be received back ‘int fall faver aqui 1914" ia changed to rend, “After 1915." The Jews can certainly de- pend on that. CARELESS WORK ia speek fais tatse: bowen dome in Baste. oe. br sermons | who overlooked important discrepancies hetween Mr. Russell and the cal- endar, for a number of ted prophecies cecarea attention. Here is just one that I find on page 133 of the 1923 edition of Volume 3: “And, with the end of A. 1914, what Ged calls Babylon and men eall Christendom will have passed away," Did Mr. Russell's books tell the date of the World War? They did—after it began. Three years after the war began I first heard that Mr. Russell had foretold the exnet date af the outbreak of the war. When I de= nied this, they gave me ee in the a ne al and one it ms enough to astound F with the earlier edition called "Millennial D Dawn ribs: bose tc ae — Parent. In “Millennial Dawn," there were very positive statements ‘that all trouble would be over before 1914, CHANGING THE PYRAMID Ea the Periy._ edition of Nobene 3. rape - S18, certain measure- ments of the Great Pyramid were giver. are told that these are “the very Seago meeruremeat ads. | by Eroleasee oe: Soh in 187z (p. 338). AS oe unquestioned authority, the leturrs ese ‘any FAS | ‘eliow his name, and Mr. Russell added his own assurance pyramid “witness” fully corraborates the Bible From one point to another in ces pamsge of te pyramid, the distance is given as 3416 inches, Mr, Russell snys these ayra- 6 adds: “Thus the pyra- Wolize years that start with 1542 i oe bronologieal beginning B.C, ond mid witnesses that the close of 1874 was the ¢ A gers in bagi remade le ag tree ner byt shall ee ee hae an giles 8 the World War began, to fit ever, the books carried a publicieds "date fo 1914 [have explained elsewhere that chinges have evidently been made in the books with- out disturbing the spublisher's date, In the later ition, we have the same assurance that the mens uremenis were very accurate, were made in 1872, and were corrobo- rated by = Bible, There is not a hint thet any error has been dis- covered, but the number af Inches between the elven points ix changed te 3457, Mr, Russell is made to say: pyramid wi fs that Use close ef 1914 will be the Yewinning of the’ time of troeble such oi was not singe there was a nation—no, nor ever shall be af- terward, Ido mot know who made these ‘books, but it is significant om in a signed statement of Mr. Russell dated Getober 1, 1916, and brinted me fenevierd tn the: 1923 beanie Lyte ee he iscusses er en views as not ‘been Sorreated: He says of this volume, “Scarcely a word would oe be changed if it were written teday—twenty-six years Inter.” = é He speaks of the same pyramid and says ip represents figurati «= {bold Ope mine). t forewerd does not approach common ty, Wf he excused the mistakes in his p ies with a plea that they were twenty-six yeara old, knowing a time that they had been ‘radically changed more than thirteen years after ier were written. (They are changed in an edition after being written.) In ue Russell's foreword dated 16, ‘pated in Volume 6, 1 find his statement that he would make changes if he were “writing this volume today,” but I have mever found in anv af these books an acknowledgment that changes had been made. A WEAK DEFENSE mow quote from other forewords dated 1916 and appearing in the *digens" dated 1523. epever, years after if was written ‘Mr, Russell says of Volume 2: “It is not to bo considered strange —_ fumatestions mua in oe me have pot bean fulliuad ath accuracy to very letter.” Considering thai was whal- iy anfaifited trem ‘cover Sn Zoven this ie a simeega tistee at ek. rection of all the “holy ones of olden time” in 1914 To ‘that to ask, How much farther could it come from the truth? WAS ME. RUSSELL SINCERE? There is a proneness in human nature to maintain and justify an ‘untenable ‘position rather thon admit defeat. There may be an —1-a fixed date to mark upon the downward passage. This Measure is 1542 inches, and indicates the year B. c. 1542, as the date at that point. Then measuring dows the “ En- trance Passage ’’ from that point, to find the distance to the entrance of the ‘‘ Pit,’ representing the great trouble and destruction with which this age is to close, when evil will be overthrown from power, we find it to bef 3416] inches, symbolizing¢3416*years from the above date, B. c. 1542. This calculation shows a. p(1874 as marking the beginning of the period of trouble ; for 1542 years B. c. plus 1874 years A.D, equals(3416 years.) Thus the Pvramid witnesses that the close of 1874 was the chronologicad beginning of the time of e such as was not since there was a nation—no, nor this enl: ction fi ‘342 of Vol. 3 (early edition), thi ader see that the Pyramid proves that the works, greatest trouble tar Sine ie begin’ in Taree, Lente eats of 1923, the same Pyramid proves it was due to begin in 1914 If the war would not fi! the Pyramid, the Pyramid must be made to fit the war—easy enough if you know how. downward passage. This measure is 1542 inches, and indicates the year B. c. 1542, as the date at that point. Then measuring down the “‘ Entrance Passage” from that point, to find the distance to the entrance of the “Pit,” representing the great trouble and destruction with which this age is to close, when evil will be overthrown from power, we find it to bec3457Jinches, symbolizing 3457 years from the above daté,¥. c. 1542, This calcu- ‘Tation shows A. D. 1915 as marking the beginning of the period of trouble; for 1542 years B. c. plus rors years A. D. equals GBas7s years. Thus the Pyramid witnesses that the close Of 1914 will be the beginning of the time of trouble such as was not since there was a nation—no, nor ever shall be afterward. And thus it will be noted that thic (UTianca’ fullve anemshinentad tha Ditl. 2.0i! The Egyptians are very careless with their pyramids and leave them out in the hot sun, but I do not believe that Pyramkl warped in Egypt after the “Dawn” people mis-guessed the war by 40 years. 6 from the edition This reproductio; e dated 1923 indi-cates that pyramid was stretched in the U.S. A. Both editions prove their claim hy "very accurate measurements” made in 1572.unconscious dishonesty in the Lal of m zealot to bolster up a dis- movement, 1 beliewe Mr, thought he waa sincere. id have been eternally to his credit if, when his of visible events utterly failed. he had cenfessed the unrelinbility of all his unique interpretations of the Bible, As it was, it was a pill to when the events of 1914 mocked his soothsayings marked him as the champion wrang quesser of the centuries, Doubtless be waa willing to save his doctrines with as litt confession of error as it possible. “SCARCELY A WORD" ie quaed freee tle he foreword in he 1a edition of ne ume f down easil: “Searcely a word a aon weet te be chan: if Tritien “tod —awenky six years afte Whatever Mr. a af the ity of words needing Subetiwten ‘somneenee change a great many words figures. and in the effort to from original mean i See epee os Sees a a es samples from Volume 3. Cn page 126. “at A. D. 1914" is ee. to “after 1914." On page 228, “before 1914" is changed io “after 1914" in two laces. to “near” On e 34, “must” is chan fo “may” in two pleces, and in a yet later salition another “must” met fo ire to “may.” sa As before noted, even the pyramid measurements are changed. WAS RUSSELL INSPIRED? In the above mentioned foreword of Volume 2 Mr. Russell = In rect inspiration from God in the interpretation of His Ward.’ Volume 3 he says, “We disclaim anything akin to inspiration in con- nection with these Studies in the Seriptures” (bold type mine). Untor- tunately his confession came after many of people had accepted his teachings as inspired. the face of these admissions, Volume 7, the “Posthumous work of Pastor Russell,” is extravagant in claiming ‘all that common people understand the word i and more than was ever claimed for any of God except his Son. . Speaking of Pentecost, it oe reshing rund te resented Pastor Russell's recelv a rich ent of the Spirit af God" (p, 38), "any Christian ‘Tministers. have had a of the Word Gad, knowl fadge of some details of the Plan, some meas= ure of the Holy Spirit; but to Pastor Russell, God's messenger to the last stage of the church, was given a suporabundance of gifts. Cp 335). “In all his warnings he claimed no seicalliy, He said that he could never have written the books himself, it all came from God ‘thre the enlightenment the Holy sont fp. Ep. In the vol- ume, written alter Mr. chariots and a Ee ECOL coe wt ca erlnalhy r. no iF no . ‘there are not many other sources of doctrine to choose from. When = ‘Mr. Russell excused his mistakes he denied his inspiration; when Vel- lume 7 exalts his doctrine, they deny his originality, 1” eccept both ANOTES Cane Aes ee ae PROPHECIES CONCERNING 1918-1925 I do not insist that Mr. Russell wrote Volume 7; I merely ac- is qui trating a great hoax; il write it, then he is responsible for the renewal prophecies fniled in 1914, In this the vols that were core onary movement one veatige of it shall survive the ravages of world-wide, anarchy in the fall of 1820." As this book was written in took a beld prophet to announce that “after 1918 the porting churchlanity will cease to be its supporters" (p. 399). ONE FIXED DATE AND EVENTEVEN SATAN DECEIVED tt would be unkind for me to originate the statement _ soa these people misled the Devil himself, but Vol. 7 implies that very thing. On page 129 it says, “No doubt Satan betheweal the millennial kin) dom was _due to be set up in 1915." Now where would Saian. got auch 4 potion? The answer easy; Mr, Russell explains the source of Satin's misinformation on page en of Volume 4. He or “Satan does not possess the holy iy vpiet and is mot guided by it, and conse- quently much of the divine fd is foolishness unto him. But he has ba no doubt as the world to some extent has learned, that ‘the secret of the Lord i with them that fear him.’ We may presume found them. Mr. Russell calls the Hol nom without capitals, though he spells Satan with a capital letter), HUMAN LIMITATIONS ‘This is a bhundering world. There is much that we do not know about curselves, much more that we do not know about the mighty pan of the universe, and vastly more that we do not knew about the infinite Spirit m pire sal Keeps blazing suns on parade. It is enough to stagger the of tian. the t such o God of such on empire will make a place iS ‘he realm of opie for man. nan. Glorious Book of God that tells us more than we can t a pathetic faree to meet such a revelation with o conceit that makes the might- lest prophecies of that Word bead up in Charles T. Russell Nor is such a concelt limited to one cult. “MILLIONS NOW LIVING WILL NEVER DIE" (Title of J. F. Rutherford’s book dated 1920) Tam willing, I have no objections to the millions living now or at any other time, making life permanent. Jesus said, “If a man keep my say- ings. he aball never see death” If thot was what Mr. Rutherford meant, he weuld have misled no ome with his slogan. His proclamation meant that millions living in 1920 would never experience physical death and he did not make his sinner-pleasing pecmise depend on any previous conduct or sincerity of the penaion- era, The mischief of the is that it is used to offer a false hope a “MILLIONS NOW LIV WHO ARE ALREADY DEAD" (Rev. ). Many persons not familiar with the Bible are deceived with his apparent appeals to Scripture, because they de not know he jug- gles with the spiritual death and tee so that one appears to mean the other or both mean eT, PAUrposes The most solemn warnings of God are gee) ‘or twisted out of 2 their obvious meanings to offer comfort to sin-lovers, The God-hater is offered hope just as though the Scripture said, “Whotscever a man soweth, the opposite shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his fleshy all al the flesh resp unending physical life—soon after 1920." “THE WORLD IS This is another slogan in this book. According to the bok, it ended in i014. That means that it had been ended six years when Mr. Rutherford wrote it and has been end- ed fourteen years when 1 write. I must, in justice to Mr. Rutherford, say that be and his following have their own private definitions for seme wards. World docs not menn world and ended does not mean ended. World means "Gentile Times” and ended means it keeps right on after it has “begally” Mahece is an ald Savin Sats here: ls mach siioke; thece “inet be some fire’ Rutherford seems to proceed on the theory that where there are! many word, the Pubic” wil think there "some tion of 2,500,000 in elght manths, Counting only the last 12 pages, that puts the slogan 500,000. times im eight a stubbom old. world vat i ees th ight on after 1 has’ been, reminded so many times that it has f the average of the first sight months has been kept wy ees Heit st te 12 peaks, has ceent old world keeps on in the face of information given to it on paper in 2,250,000,000 places, But who cares if by some trick of words or private definit this man has ended some sort of world? Let hin anmuse hinwelf. would not waste an hour playing hide and scck with his shifting defi- ism redated and eng paint foes, Fo ty 1904” (1 wan 1 migh ik that Mr. Rutherford said this in ig- poraneso ef what Mr, re Te eed hee ua yan T have as I write, Vol. 3 of Mr. Russell's books, : ES lshers date of 188 tnd on page 15% il says, “AND WITH OF 1914, WHAT GOD CALLS BABYLON AND MEN CALL CHRIS- TENDOM, WILL HAVE PASSED AWAY, AS ALREADY SHOWN FROM PROPHECY” (emphasis mine). In’ that same volume, in a foreword by Mr. Russell, dated 1916, ‘Mr. Russell anys, ". «= ‘at one time we supposed that the Harvest werk would have been fully ac-Surely he knows that Mr, Russell locked for the physical resur- rection of "the ancient worthies" in 1914, because Mr. Rutherford himself set the date forward 11 years. Let mo quote Mr. Rutherford. On page 83 ho says, “Therefore we may confidently that 1925 will mark the return of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the faithful prophets of old, particularly these named by the Apostle in Hebrews chapter eleven, to the condition of human perfectian,” T am cha ith persecution because I call’ attention to these guesses. 1 only one of the patriarchs hnd come back either in 191d or in 1925, it would have humbled me, but {t appears that mot one prophet nor ane almanac will pay the least attention to their uppoint- ments. Ihave found one part of cne prophecy of Mr, Rutherford that did COME TRUE. "'On page 97 he says, "Based upon the argument heretofore set forth, then, that the ald order of » the old world, worthies of okt and the inning of reconstruction, it is reasonable to conclude that MILLIO} OF PEOPLE NOW [19201 ON THE EARTH WILL BE STILL ON THE EARTH IN 1925" (emphasis mine}, Millions Hving in 1920 were promised five more years! 1 am asked why I do not refute the doctrines contained in the hillicns of they have printed, [t has been done a hundred mes, but what is the use? ‘Foe man who can know the false proph- ecies and still believes these people are the sole custodians of the truth about God's plans here and in eternity, evidently wants ia be- eve it and ii is well near impossible to change thi i-to In peo ple's lives with argument. Some parents have found that out, = WHAT IS THE WANT-TO THAT INVITES HERESY? There are certain charecteristies that advertise most false proph- eta at effectively as a striped pele dees a harber shop. Why is ony heresy attractive to prople who love to have their Ow et the Holy Seriptures answer, Th af the fizst false prophet in Eden amounted ie arument to this: You can have more to eat, be better educated and rise to the level of gods, As for this threat of death, “ye shall mot surely die.” A wayward people will welcome prophets who pro “smooth things,” as God says in Is. 30:10. After the fale prophets had told the kings ‘what the kings wished to bear, the f exhorted the trom peochet to pias. speak lke. ioe une TS (See I Kings 22:6-13), In Jer, 6:13, 14, God denounces the false prophets who say, 7 peace; when there is no "In Exekbel 13:6, the false prophets are described os giving a foley hope. In Jer, 14:13, the false prophets are reported to have promised immunity from the wrath of God Again in Jer, my th il shall ” er. prop rom= [fed escaze from ‘the penalty for sin, In ii Tim. 4:3, ihe demaid for false tenchers is foretold in these words, “For 4 time is coming when they will not tolerate wholesome instruction, but, wanting to have aM ‘their ears tickled, they find » multitude of teachers to satisfy their own fancies.” (Wi of your Sin mot very bad, a ttle. ceremony will you immunity. Have a good time now; repent {if you must) Just before you die. IF you ie umeved a litle ft after death and. some ceremonies will save Millions now li rely upon some scheme that will swindle af the living and romised a more favorable ity ee eS eee ee, eee ver for zords. In explaining the supper for flesh-ea birds 26, makes the Flock" (Russell's flock, of course), reading ton as directed, oe that fiwippant exposition is that the Word of God in this place re- ‘ans Gol inn interest in completing Mrs. Russell's books with Vol. 7. ‘a Vol. 7, then, is the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of mn. a Tt is beyond the reach of ony language op- propriate bere, It is my task to point out the loose ends; it will be for you to answer fo your own conscience and God as to what you do with plain facts, MILLIONS NOW LIVING ARE OFFERED THIS SORT OF STUFF aS See rune ‘Thousands now living, not knowing the Bible, take it for granted these people are Bible students because they give themselves thi name, ‘Millions now living have bought, found on thelr or had given them, this kind of literature mot knowing that it is on of Revelation was meant to de- scribe the performance of C, T, Russell, i teousness. ie reece at Bee eee wh tee Seo robe, of dena wt shall come in my name saying, I am Christ; a Now LIVING WiLL DO WELL TO HEED THE Waknntc OF JESUS. The matter that follows was not in the first edition, [t ie writ- ten in the autumn of 1934—60 yeara after Christ is said to have come to earth and 20 years after the werld ended according to the findings of Metsrs. Russell and Rutherford, RUTHERFORD'S “WITNESSES” Many 2 witneas, han won the exis fe hie side beceume he. could Femer| To give convincing testimony ins of Mr. Russell and Mr, Rutherford, one needs to be a’ good tmgetier, Probably no cult id human history has had oreasion to forget so much in ao short a time, Perhaps no other leader has had m followi 20, will to let him do their forgetting for them, as this “Judge” —_ His Hon- not or published a book in 1920; 1020; I have nineteen of his Books ‘published since; these books contain advertisersents of his other books, but mot one of them advertises “Millions now will Never Die” There are some things inthis book the "wnesea™ Tot recite, Tiga Appellee cata of this masterful man, one ie cult, Th “witnesses” have to say about “present truth” and I am class. fied as a persecutor because I have called attention to their “truth” never :F i i 5 i # tee ah Ff i iERLL yo felleizesis THE DRIVE, EVER DID ANYTHING THAT HE COULD NOT HAVE DONE WITHOUT CHANGING HIS LOCATION IN 1874 After Mr, Fussell hed hammered away ot an incredulous world Knowledged mi but declared with his that the World War “will culminate in complete overthrow of all fuman government.” His disa was humiliating, bat he 1almanac. They could have continued until now, setting new dates and retaining most of their followers, but they hankered for vindi- cation before an amused world that refused to believe it had “legally ended” in 1914 Someone tampered with Mr, Russell's books, Just a3 an example, in one place substituted a S-letier word for # word. Where Russell had told what would hapoen he- fore 19H, they made it read, after 1914. Of course, anything ¢ ikappens in the next million years will happen after 1914, This change was very helpful to the “Witnesses,” because millions now 1 do not have the early editions. To make the houwx complete, it was necessary to we the size of the great pyramid in . seeing that Mr, Russell proved (7) his dates lts measurements. If it could be stretehed 41 inch. es ik would prove that trouble would start in 1914 instead of sto then. And so, in the later editions it has been stretched. Why not! Millions mow living, inchuding the gentlemen whe made the change, have never seen the pyramid. re incidentals, lt rd inreel Tos to know fhat Mr. Russell called ie great ee tines.” Dea t suggest any thing? i Rutherford desired witnesses more responsive "he auag- gestion and so he has transferred the name to admirers who never inansionally give testimony not in harmony with the decdsion of their RUTHERFORD THE AFTERTHOUGHT = Consistent ieee pas, Rutherford ought ta rere His jonor ag an alte a Tsay Be inspired writers of the Bible knew nothing of Mr. Rutherford. Not even Grd's “Great Watchman.” Mr. Russell, who knew the “Plan of the Ages.” was aware that a great judge was coming who would put him in eclipse and circulate a hundred million books. [ base this statement sn early editions of the Russell books: Mr. Rutherford may be fore- told in the latest editions. In the books credited to Mr. Russell, it is alleged that he is the Seventh Angel, “(God's messenger to the last age of the church.” the sounder of the Seventh Trumpet, the only successor of all the clergy, the one appointed to mark all who are to be spared from slaughter, the maker of the great chain that la te hind the dowil, ane the faihful servant referred to by our Lard There was no exalted office left for an Eighth Angel. Mr. Russell took his rank ond office with him when he went “beyond the veil" to act as General. Manager, He left no place for a great successor becuse he taught that there would be nothing more to be dene requiring a dictator, Twenty-five years betare he died, Mr, Russell sang the “Swan Song* of his little k. In Vol, 3 p 342 be promises hus followers that they will “decrease in influence and numbers.” On page 364 he says they “will have passed beyond the veil before the close of 1910." Of course, this is changed in later ions, On another page in the same volume he says it must hap- ‘before ISL. Unless Mr, Russell was a false prophet there can am “true church” here, Some leaders have “burned the bridges behind them.” but Mr, Russell bumed them ahead of him and pro- a i there would 4 bridge. Perhaps the “true Church" has chronologically passed on and Mr, Rutherford is working with what is left. But how can they increase when Bible study revealed to Mr. Russell that they must decrease? TROUBLE AT THE WEDDING Mf the reader will read the parable of “The Ten Virgins" in Matt, 2, tt will be anparent oe ee, tragedy portrayed therein centers in this full number Sect "Did the door slam shut in 1880! No, Mr. Russell would have had nothing celestial to of con= verte after the door was shut. Mr. Russell cus tomers that the door was yet open so that they might take the places of the guests who might thrown out because ‘cast oside the From 1881 until the death of Mr. Russell— 35 years, they, Red. been. throw! out guests to make places “for his converts. Now, 53 years after had the full number of guests, rd bordering on With the “Flan of the Ages” “sewed up” by the “Pastor,” how could the “Judge" come on the stage unannounced by the brush aside all rivals, make a “back number” of Mr, Russell, re- thunder the thunders, unsing the “swan song.” change the name of the society, make the cult “eat out of his hand” and circulate ten times as many Mr. Russell? (Mr. Rutherford's total four books as years ago was 53,500,000—if—well, use your own judgment.) stand how necemury the “Judge” ix to the cult. Consider also, that the ue aoe left without Died thn nell Ce teen date-b ‘ They for atistal on the al- mana and now "cupboard eat bare.” Wi a eublene credulity or a far-sesi sagacity, Mr, Rutherford prepared a calendar ban- quet that would last for lve years, 3HOPE REVIVED Tn 1920, the “Judge” Bublished his book, “Millions now Living will Never Die” On page 97, he dates the resurrection of the “faith- ful worthies of old” and arguea that becouse of what will happen in 1925, all _who are then. living w will never die, except that “some will refiee to obey the divine Taw OH course, those who refuse ta be saved, will be destroyed, but they shall have 10 years to make their minds. This Inst statement is not a quotation from this bool but is a well known “talking point* when this sect deals with a» oo ner who wants a religion that will let him keep bis sin in this life, “POSITIVE PROMISE” This page 97 is under the auh-head, “Positive Promise:” there is another sub-head “CLERGY'S OPPORTUNTY,” under which they are scolded for not offering am assurance that sin-lovers and God- ‘haters will have a thousand years to repent after they are raised from the dend—the resurrection to begin in 1925. (After 14 years I am rather ~e the Judge dil not frighten me into relaying his procka- THE PROPHECIES FAIL AGAIN The dead may have been raised “chromologleally" of restored to perfect manhood “legally,” but even the “students” felt that the al- manac had betrayed them again. Did Mr. Rutherford lose his job as dictator af the “Truth People?” He did mot! After making the five of fifty years, he ditched the nlmanac and capitalized the unrest that followed the war. Capitalizing that unrest made a flock of dictators and all that Mussolini is to Italy or Hitler is to Germany, Rutherford is to his “witnesses.” Like his predecessor, Mr. Rutherford capitalizes the lack of in- formation as to what the Bible really says. He can ‘theo a Seine as did Mr. Russell, and the millions now living do not recognize the fraud, RUTHERFORD, THE CHALLENGER: ‘ne talking-point of the “witnesses” is the boast that the cl are afraid to debate with Mr, Rutherford. The answer is twofold, ( Not one cler; a hems a pee tenner ean one ditions. I have repeatedly offered to debate, My last experience waa with o gentleman in the mid-West. He demanded that I come to his town, bear my own expenses, debote with him twhte a day for twen days, discuss the Sone be espe and no other, and be silenced by the chairman if I i other matters. Nol one question, under this rule, would permit me te discuss doctrines iar to this cult, I offered to submit the matter to arbitration ond this was re- fused. I offered to print at my own expense, a to this book (first edition) if he would limit the reply to allegu made in the . book. The sendloman prepared = manuscript that was almost wholly ao discusion of doctrines not referred this book. Our corres= renence totaled hundreds of pages and my opponent used pencils uncomplimentary remarks, se seelmments Tr bawéeseds, a this book; 2mm wilting i pore or hove di roved in a public debate governed by a committee fair to Book aida T ould co oe a fuess thet Bir, Rutherford hankers| for rach a debate, DOCTRINES OF MILLENNIAL DAWN For many years, as time permitted and occasion required I have studied early and late editions of the books of the “Pastor” and the a yet To have never found a concise statement of what they lieve. And why not? They have some plausible doctrines that they at to and reserve the ramel-swallowing until they have the -beginn gul- Jet stretched. Every Fane: Decbecailiet. starts with something easy to believe, knowing that he has a mind on the skids, the rest is comparatively easy. There is no decoy duck like a live duck with his wings clipped, and there is no teaching more seductive than a truth geared up with error, t them like G000 pages to tell their theories and after wi em, I cannot even guess what they be- in some details jutely vital to application of their doctrines. y Tyeat Sa eeene gvauee, SS teendahing bow many, ees they and what would logically follow. Mf they deny conjugal love and children to the restored world, they leave out the most important condition of Adams existence, next to God and life. If they restore normal home life, then will have trouble with mathe: Aga rit they have invisible det localized. It means that the Christ of the universe is bomctatrals and focused into invisihility and limited to a spot. Supposing the ner is ignorant. of or indifferent to such statements of our Lord (Matt. 28:20) that He would abide with us always, yet even a shallow thinker must assume that euch a transfer af invisible deity was necessary because He had been hindered pre- viously by distance. If distance is a handica; sity, Bs noe tal us how many inches away. will hinder hen from doing Hi? bea? Foolishness! Throw i but | aide se ee Sunposiny that Christ camo invisiele, to “Watchtower” “pans jaarters in Alleg 3 aid be leave Al and ga to Pittsburgh when Mr. aid? No the answer ae would be that Christ was pre- sen, hrcughout the earth A Ie eae ee a ey Ht Cota as oe enough to out helen” Al tig ang that Cart concent Tnvisi- 31 tivr PRE Lord Jesus when he came to earth. Holy Ghost, If this last item seems of eth againat the Holy Ghost, shall for- it a it wot be for- ' UNPARDO ‘SIN, this life or in eternity more than sinning against the